Essays Tagged: "visage"

vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, 5Tell that its sculptor well t ...

w the will of his conscience.Hamlet opens at the royal castle of Elsinore where a ghost bearing the visage of the recently deceased King Hamlet is seen walking the halls in battle gear. Later it is le ...

rtially erect in the desert. The face of this statue is proud and arrogant, "Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well t ...

she thrust up her candle close to my face, and extinguished it under my eyes. I was aware her lurid visage flamed over mine, and I lost consciousness."In this passage Jane tells the story of Bertha's ... ny cruelty.This passage is ripe with hellish references. Jane speaks of "fiery eyes" and "her lurid visage flamed over mine" all the while Bertha is holding a candle and is afraid of daylight. In this ...

s and 70s. But he feels that while society was calmer, controversy in government grew masked in the visage of discontent. The early 80s through the middle 90s were a time of reformism. Rauch feels tha ...

hat the sculptor had skillfully captured the 'frown, the wrinkled lip, and sneer' on the 'shattered visage' through 'passions well read.' The importance of this traveler is that of symbolism. The trav ... et alone despair upon! It can be seen that nature has destroyed his works in the quotes, 'shattered visage' and 'sand, half sunk.' Thus the major theme of the poem is reavealed.The statue is described ...

esOn my warm face caressed it didWith sweetened Lilac air, fondled I beImages of meadows of endless visageDaisies, Bluebells, Joined in prayerCrops of dandelions here and thereLike opals of an April d ...

of Hester Prynne, though his name is never revealed. He is a man "Small in stature, with a furrowed visage," and is both intelligent looking and clothed in a strange mix of civilized and native Americ ...

isn't for Mr. Giles to raise these kids. It's for me." One of the riders, a lean man with a hawkish visage spat in the dirt beside his horse and said, "Tom, we come for the kids. Buckboard will be her ...

ns.The word 'Christian' reverberates with qualities of sympathy for another's plight and provides a visage under which these 'Christians' behave in a non-Christian manner. The vision of a traditional ...

nd a perplexing look, worthy of questioning. Some, I think, may feel uncomfortable by this puzzling visage and his imposing dimensions; others will join him in thought and reflection.
The man is not a ...